Public Science Data Shorts

This Is Our Home: Scars of Stop and Frisk

Mapping has been an important part of our project, from defining the boundaries of our study, to documenting and analyzing policing patterns. We call our process "critical mapping" because we use maps interrogate and speak back to the "official" maps that label our neighborhood a "hot spot" of crime. Click here for a video we made to represent the cumulative and uneven impact of hot spot policing across the city. Every NYPD police stop, every hour, for the entire year – in 3.5 minutes!